Tang Ying
Many Collectors are of the opinion that Qing porcelain reached its peak during the Qianlong period thanks to the service of Tang Ying, the most famous Porcelain Superintendent ever sent to Jingdezhen by the Imperial Court. He worked there for a total of twenty years during which the Imperial workshop carried his name in 1728-56, as Tang Yao, the Tang kiln.
Tang Ying was a learned Mandarin, so devoted in his work that he lived, ate and slept with the potters for the first three years after he arrived in Jingdezhen to really learn and understand porcelain. Emperor Qianlong was a keen porcelain man himself and it was his fate and fortune to have Tang Ying in his service to produce for him the dazzling Qianlong Porcelains that we see today. Even Jiaqing period pieces should carry some of the characteristics of the Qianlong influence, and with them a shade of Tang Ying's work.
Qianlong and Jiaqing's enamels are rich, solid, yet pure and almost transparent.
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